nginx : rewrite rule to remove /index.html from the $request_uri

Question

I\'ve seen a few ways to rewrite the $request_uri and add the index.html to it when that particular file exists in the file system, like so:

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Answer 1

The solutions quoting $scheme://domain.com/ assume that the domain is hard-coded. It was not in my case and so I used:

location / {
    ...

    rewrite index.html $scheme://$http_host/ redirect;

    ... }